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251.5 sec. 1 - Corporate Finance and Law (Fall 2009)
Instructor: Eric Talley (view instructor's teaching evaluations | profile)
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Units: 4
Meeting Time: MTu 8:30AM-9:50
Meeting Location: B-5, Hearst Field Annex (HFA)
Course Control Number (Non-1Ls): 49637
Main Section Enrollment:
Enrolled: 37
Waitlisted: 7
Enroll Limit: 37
As of: 11/25 06:43 AM
This is a four unit course. It explores the intersection of the fields of corporate finance and corporate law, particularly in domains where the two fields tend to lean heavily upon one another: mergers and acquisitions, securities litigation, corporate governance, and state shareholder actions. Emphasis will be on developing an understanding for the greater focus and expertise that financial economists have developed over the last half century to answer "real world" problems of legal significance. In addition, we will consider how (and why) both courts and regulators now place significant emphasis on financial methodologies pertaining to valuation, transactional fairness, market dynamics, and the ability to quantify / spread risks. Topics include time valuation, risk valuation, the capital asset pricing model, arbitrage pricing theory, options valuation, damages computations, company valuation, and event studies in litigation.
Prerequisites:
The course is appropriate for advanced law and business students. Although it does not have prerequisites, it helps for students to have some familiarity with basic principles in corporate and securities law (even if taken concurrently), to be comfortable working with numbers (including algebra and some elementary calculus), and to have basic facility with spreadsheet programs like Excel. Some experience in an undergraduate or graduate statistics class is also helpful, but not required.
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Exam Notes: TH
This is a credit only course
Course Category: Business Law
Course Subcategories:
Law and Economics
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